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sympathies

/sim-puh-thee/US // ˈsɪm pə θi //UK // (ˈsɪmpəθɪ) //

同情,同情心,慰问品,共鸣

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural sym·pa·thies.

    • : harmony of or agreement in feeling, as between persons or on the part of one person with respect to another.
    • : the harmony of feeling naturally existing between persons of like tastes or opinion or of congenial dispositions.
    • : the fact or power of sharing the feelings of another, especially in sorrow or trouble; fellow feeling, compassion, or commiseration.
    • : sympathies, feelings or impulses of compassion.feelings of favor, support, or loyalty: It's hard to tell where your sympathies lie.
    • : favorable or approving accord; favor or approval: He viewed the plan with sympathy and publicly backed it.
    • : agreement, consonance, or accord.
    • : Psychology. a relationship between persons in which the condition of one induces a parallel or reciprocal condition in another.
    • : Physiology. the relation between parts or organs whereby a condition or disorder of one part induces some effect in another.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : expressing sympathy: a sympathy card; a sympathy vote.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounshared feeling

Examples

  • We would like to extend our sincere sympathies to the family and friends of those on board QZ8501.

  • Over the course of the year, Klaus would repeatedly, through word and deed, demonstrate his sympathies with Putin.

  • For anyone whose political sympathies lie left of center, discovering and reading Chomsky is a rite of passage.

  • He may have done an excellent job of expressing his sympathies in an appropriate and meaningful way.

  • Her sympathies lie instead with Roelf Pool, one of her first pupils, who has run away from his farm to become a painter in Paris.

  • His sympathies were essentially democratic; himself one of the people, he believed thoroughly in republican ideas.

  • I can not connect myself with any man whose tastes and sympathies are not in accordance with my own.

  • The fact that I am practically an exile from my native land shows where my sympathies lie.

  • We believe it to be anti-Christian in its character, and misanthropic in its pretended sympathies.

  • There are sympathies that go deep between little girls and their dolls.